Display toy aeroplane



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DISYPLAY TQOY AEROPLANE Filed June 20, 1928 6 Sheets-Sheet 6 I BY I 1E ATToRNEY-s' Patented May 5, 1931 more rare inane FAFEENF PRINTING & LITEOGRAPI-I GOMPANY,

OF OHIO DISPLAY TOY AEBOPLANE Application filed June 20,

My invention relates to toy aeroplanes and has for its primary object to provide a toy aeroplane which can be economically made of a sheet of paper or cardboard for convenient packing and transportation and when assembled will form an attractive miniature of an aeroplane of a well-known type which can be advantageously used for advertising purposes.

To this end my invention, in its present preferred form, consists generally of a blank or sheet with a transverse wing portion at one end, a longitudinal neck portion with ahead portion projecting medially from the wing portion, and combination tail and fuselage portions projecting laterally and oppositely from the terminal head portion, so that the tail and fuselage portions can be folded backward on opposite sides of the head portion to form the fuselage, tail, and rudders, and the neck and transverse wing portion can be folded backward from the top of the head portion and secured to the upper edges of the fuselage and tail portions, so as to hold and stiffen the head, wing, fuselage and tail in position to form the complete miniature aeroplane.

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I shall first describe in detail the mode in which I at present prefer to carry this invention into practice, and then particularly point out the invention in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this application for patent in which like parts are designated by the same numbers in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the principal blank from which one form of aeroplane embodying my invention is mainly formed.

Figure 2 is a plan view of an adjustable blank used with the blank shown in Figure 1 to complete the toy aeroplane.

Figure 3 is a sectional side elevation of the complete toy aeroplane thus formed.

Figure 4 is a bow view-of the same, part of the wing being broken away.

Figure 5 is a plan view of the same.

Figure 6 is a plan view of the principal blank from which a modification of my invention is formed.

1928. Serial No. 286,973.

Figure 7 is a pla-nview of an additional blank used with that shown in Figure 6, to complete the said modified form of aeroplane.

N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE UNITED F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION Figure 8 is a sectional side view of the said form completed.

Figure 9 is a bow view of'the same. Figure 10 is a plan view of the same. Figure 11 is a plan view of the principal blank from which another modification of my invention is formed.

Figure 12 is a plan view of an additional 0r second blank used with that shown in Fig ure 11 to complete the aeroplane.

Figure 18 is a plan view of an additional or third blank used with the blanks shown in 5;:

Figures 11 and 12, to complete the aeroplane. Figure 1 1 is a sectional side view of the complete aeroplane formed from the blanks shown in Figures 11,12, and 13. Figure 15 is a bow View of the same. Figure 16 is a plan view of the same. Referring first to Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, the principal blank 17, shownin F 1* igure 1 is formed with a transverse wing portion 18,

having a medial rear extension 19, with op- I posite lateral tongues 20, 20" and a transverse slit 21 at the base of the extension 19. From the middle of the front edge of the wing poron opposite sides of which rearwardly extending slits 28 are cut inthe wing portion, forming therebetween a rear extension 24: of the neck portion. 011 the outer sides of the slits 23 are formed forward extensions 25 of the wing portion, and on the forward edges of said extensions 25 are formed propeller extensions 26, with lateral bracket extensions 27, the upper and lower edges of which are preferably curved for a purpose hereafter described.

On the forward end of the neck portion 22, is formed a preferably rectangular head portion 28 formed with diagonal propeller portions 29, and from opposite sides of the head portion 28 project oppositely and laterally combination fuselage and tail portions 30 formed on their upper edges'on opposite sides of the head portion with wing portions 31, ontheirlower edges with legportions 32, about midway of their length with slits 33, and on tion'l8, extends a narrowed neck portion-22,

their rear ends with upright rudder portions at, at the bases of which are cut laterally extending slits 35, and downwardly projecting tongues 36.

The additional blank shown in Figure 2, is formed with a longitudinal rearwardly tap ering body portion 37 having opposite lateral extensions 38, a forward medial tongue 39, and, on its rear end, a horizontal rudder portion 40, having a medial longitudinal slit 4n, and a rear end longitudinal slit 42.

To assemble the aeroplane fron the blanks thus described and shown in Figures 1 and 2, the combination fuselage and tail portions are bent rearwardly on the vertical lines 43, connecting them with thehead portion 28, so as to converge rearwardly. The'neckportion 22 c1s;bent rearwardly on the transverse line 14A connecting it with the head portion 28, and on the transverse line 45 connecting it with its extension :24. i

The wing portion 18 is bent rearwardly on the transverse lines 46, connecting it with the propeller ,portions26, and on the transverse lines L7, 48, successively to the rear of the line 46,;and the rear wing-extension 19 is bent downwardly on the transverse line a) connecting it with the wing portion 18.

The tongues 20,20 on the rear wing extension {19 are then inserted in the respective slits 33 in thefuselage portions 30, so as to secure the wing portion 18 to the fuselage portions 30 and holdiboth in position.

The bracket portions 27 are bent rearwardly on the vertical lines 50, connecting them with the propeller portions 26, and under the front doubly bent portion of the wing, so

that the upper curved edges of the bracket portions 27 will uphold and shape the forward bent portion of the wing into a close simulation of'that part of the-wing of a fullsize aeroplane.

The lateral extensions 38 of the additional blankshownin Figure 2- are then bent down- .wardon c-the rearwardly converging lines 51 conneetingthem with the bodyportion 37 the forward-tongue391thereof inserted in the slit 21, in the wingportion, the downwardly bent extensions 38, placed betweenthe rearwardly extending fuselage portions 33, both the upright tail rudder portions 31 inserted in the slit a2, ,in the horizontal rudder portion 40, and both-tongues;36,iinserted in the slit all.

Elie lugs 31 ,are then bent inwardly over the neck portion 22 which now forms .the top of thebow of ,the-fuselagaso as to complete the fuselage.

A complete toy aeroplane for display is thus formed, asshown in Figures 3, 4,:and 5, which is supported onzthe legs formed by the leg portions 32, and tailskidsformed by skid portions 52 which ,depend from the lower edges Ofgtl16 fuselage portions 30.

, illhehead-portion28 forinsithe square bow of -the aeroplane with the propeller portions 29 simulating one propeller; the doubly bent wing portions forward of the transverse line 48 form the curved surface of the wing; the winged propeller portions 26 simulate the two additional propellers of this type of aeroplane; the body portion 37 of the additional blank forms the closed top of the fuselage, held in place by the downwardly bent lateral extensions 38, the forward tongue 39, the rear "fixed inplace as described.

In the modified form of=toy display aeroplane shownin Figures 6, 7, 8, 9,= and 10, the winged iead portion 53, of. the blankshown in Figures 6 and 7, the neck portionfia, its rear extension 55, the transverse wing portion 56, adjoining the neckextension 55,-the fuselage portions 57, the-upr ghtlrudder portions 58,'the skid portion 59. the leg portions 60,the

upright rudder slits-6'1 and tongues :62, the additional fuselage bla.-nkG3,:w1th its lateral extensionsba, horizontal rudder portion 65, and slits Stand '67 are substantially the-same in form and tfunctioinas shown in Figures :1,

2, 3,.l,and5.

lnithis-n'iodification, however, the rearedge n x y #1:. v wing 139L101! 56 1s ioinied winia pan of forwardly extendingslits 68, which, when the neck portions 54:, wing portion '56, and fuselage P0111011 5.7, are bent'rearwardly, as

described in connection with' Figures 1- to '5,

are engaged with rearwardly extending slits 69 in the upper edges of the respective fuselage portions 57,.so asito securethewingportionto the fuselage portions and form the wing and fuselage.

lnithismodification,theupper edgesofthe fuselage portions '5'? are formed with curved portions 70, overwhich the neck extension 55 and the formed portion ofthe wing portion 561s bent so as properly' tocurve-andshape an the iwing as shown in Figures 8 and?) which show'the aeroplanecompleted and setup for display purposes.

In :the modified form of .toy aeroplane shown in Figurc-is '11 to 16,;the fuselage portions 71, project in opposite sides .of the wingeo square hea d portion-72, as in the two previouslydescribed forms, and are formed with upright rudder portions'73 with-slits .74, lugs'7'5, skid portions 76, and elegportions 17 7, substantially as insaid other forms.

In this :form of aeroplane however, the wing portion '7 8,-shown in Figure 12,-is made from a blank separate from the fuselage 119.01- tion, and is placed under the forward partof the completed fuselage as shown in Figures 14, 15, and 16, in simulation of another wellknown type of aeroplane.

The fuselage portions 71, are formed on either side of the head portion 72 with transverse slits 7 9; inside the leg portions 77, with slits 80, extendin upwardly and rearwardly from the lower edges of the fuselage portions and outside the leg portion 77, with recesses 81 from their lower edges.

In the middle of the wing portion 78, is cut out a tongue 82, and in its lower or rear edge is cutout a tongue 83, leaving between the tongue openings a cross bar 84.

The additional fuselage portion 85 shown in Figure 13 is formed with a. horizontal rudder portion 86, with a medial slit 8'? and rear end slit 88 and with lateral extensions 88, as and to function with the rearwardly folded fuselage portions 71 substantially as previously described in connection with the two other forms previously referred to.

In addition, however, the extra fuselage portion 85, is formed with opposite lateral tabs 89, forward of the extensions 88, to be bent downward and fit inside the rearwardly folded fuselage portions 71; with opposite lateral tabs 90 forward of the tabs 89, to be bent downward and lit insioe the fuselage portions 71, with tongues 91 on the ends of the tabs 90, to enter the respective slits 79, and secure the top fuselage portion 85 to the main fuselage portions 71, and with a forward end tab 92 to be bent downward and bear against the head portion 72, as shown in Figure 14:.

To secure the wing portion 7 8 to the completed fuselage thus formed, the forward side of the wing portion is inserted in the opposite slits 80, and the cross-bar 84, inserted in the recesses 81, the tongue 88, being bent downward and resting against the rear ends of said recesses 81 and the legs formed by the leg port-ions 77, passing downward through the opening of the tongue 82, as best shown in Figure 14.

The wing portion, main fuselage portions and top fuselage portion are thus secured together and in proper position to form a simulation of the special type of aeroplane planned, and make an efiective display for advertising purposes.

It is evident that other forms of my invention may be similarly constructed without departing from the boundaries of my invention as defined by the following claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. A flexible blank for forming a toy display aeroplane comprising a medial head portion, fuselage side portions extending laterally and oppositely from the same, adapted to be folded rearwardly therefrom, and having slits therein, and rear end upright rudder portions having slits, .a slit transverse wing portion to rest against the folded fuselage side portions and be secured in the side slits, and a top having a rear slit fuselage portion with a forward tongue to enter the rear slit of the wing, and a rear end horizontal rudder portion to enter the slits in the upright rudder portion, and-also receiving the rudder portion in the rear slit.

2, A toy display aeroplane in accord with claim 1, in which the transverse wing portion has a middle rear extension with opposite end tongues to enter the side slits in the respective side fuselage portion.

3. A toy display aeroplane in accord with claim 1, in which laterally extending bracket portions curved on their upper edges, are formed on the forward edges of the wing portion to be bent rearwardly under the wing portion and support and shape the same.

4. A toy display aeroplane in accord with claim 1, in which circular engine and propeller and engine casing portions, the latter curved on their upper edges, are formed on the forward edge of the wing portion to be bent rearwardly under the wing portion and support and shape the same.

5. A flexible blank for forming a toy display aeroplane comprising an unbroken medial head portion, fuselage side portions extending laterally and oppositely therefrom, adapted to be folded rearwardly and having rudder portions on their ends formed with receiving slots and locking projections, a wing adapted to seat transversely over the fuselage in interlocking engagement there with, and a top fuselage and rudder portion adapted to seat over the'fuselage sides in engagement with the slots of the rear rudder portions, and having a slot to receive both locking projections of the rear rudder portions to lock the parts together.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my si nature.

J OSEPH EDWIN BURG'DESS. 

